Verizon devotes “more than half of its network capital budget...
Verizon devotes “more than half of its network capital budget to ... multiple techniques to increase spectrum capacity,” a representative of the company said in a meeting at the FCC to discuss the carrier’s deals to buy AWS spectrum from…
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four cable operators. The meeting was attended by Wireless Bureau Chief Rick Kaplan and FCC General Counsel Austin Schlick, both of whom are leaving. Agency officials say their review of the AWS deals is reaching its end stages, though some work remains. Verizon “accounts for these techniques” aimed at increasing spectrum efficiency “in its spectrum need projections,” the carrier said in an ex parte filing (http://xrl.us/bm9yq9) on the meeting. “These techniques are not sufficient to address growing capacity constraints given the extraordinary increase in customers’ demand for LTE,” it said. “For example, ... Verizon plans to redeploy PCS spectrum for LTE as soon as it is possible to do, but the PCS spectrum cannot accommodate the dramatic growth in customer LTE demand and is instead needed to further supplement the AWS spectrum being acquired."